The Divorced Dad Blog

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FAFSA After Divorce: What Dads Need to Know

How the FAFSA works for divorced dads: which parent files, what happens with stepparents and child support, and what to do if your income changed.

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Setting Up a Kid’s Room at Dad’s Apartment on a Budget

How divorced dads can set up a kid's room at a small apartment on a budget: the five essentials, safety checks, and what to skip.

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Custody and Moving Away: A Divorced Dad’s Guide

What divorced dads need to know when a parent wants to move away with the kids: notice deadlines, what courts weigh, and how to build a long-distance plan.

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Discipline in Two Homes: A Divorced Dad’s Guide

How divorced dads keep discipline consistent across two homes: which rules to match, how to raise it with your ex, and what to do on every-other-weekend visits.

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Taxes After Divorce: Who Claims the Kids

December 31 sets your filing status, nights decide who claims the children, and your decree does not bind the IRS. What Form 8332 moves, and what stays put.

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Child Support When You Are Self-Employed

Courts do not use your taxable income. What gets added back, how variable earnings are averaged, what the other side will demand, and the move that always backfires.

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My Teenager Will Not Come to My House: What to Do

There is no age of choice, and no judge expects you to force a sixteen year old into a car. What the law says, which refusal this actually is, and the slow fix that works.

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Custody Schedules for Dads Who Work Shifts

Nights, 24 on 48 off, 7 and 7, long haul. Schedules built around your rota instead of a nine to five calendar, and how to write one a judge will sign.

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Military Divorce: What Service Members Need to Know

The pension rules everyone confuses, what deployment can and cannot cost you in custody, why BAH counts as income, and the protection most service members forget.

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OurFamilyWizard vs TalkingParents vs AppClose

Which co-parenting app courts actually name, which one is genuinely free, and how to pick in a minute. Plus how to get an unwilling ex to use one.

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